The easy answer on why its difficult or impossible to publicly demonstrate unambiguously paranormal phenomena, is that such phenomena are not real, and all people who believe in them are delusional. But of course that answer only works if you can square it with your own experience, and if you never push your own experience beyond that.
Here's a couple of possible answers, as conjectures:
1. If phenomena such as teleportation are real, then people have a lot more potential power than they thought they had. If they explore that power, then they find out that they've got moral responsibility for what they do with it. And such moral responsibility does not start and stop with birth and death, because the parts of ourselves that have such power do not start and stop there. We find that who we are is inherited in large part from others who have come before us. Perhaps who you are is not your fault, in that you didn't choose the history of your species. You didn't choose your genes, and your upbringing, and the lusts that you inherited with those. But nevertheless, you are what you are now. If you're a predator, a vampire, in one way or another, what are you going to do about it? What you do about it is your responsibility now. Nobody wants that responsibility, because its hard. So nobody wants to follow a path of discovery that will lead to that awareness. Everyone tries to close the door, in one way or another. One way of closing the door is to deny the possibility of paranormal phenomena. So if you attempt to produce such phenomena, you are not only obstructed by the weakness of your own mind, you are also obstructed by billions of other minds who want to live in a world where such phenomena are not real. Because they do not want responsibility.
2. Maybe its really not time for it. Maybe if paranormal phenomena were demonstrated, the sway of religions would be even stronger, and reason and spiritual freedom would have an even harder time developing. Maybe people are right to resist it. I'm guessing this is probably part of the truth also.
My gut feel, reflexive response to this is that people are cowards. The powerful, spiritual part of yourself has a right to live also, its not right to lock it in a cage forever. So acknowledge it, exercise it, and honestly face and accept the consequences. Maybe in the course of doing this, I'll find that I was too arrogant, that I pushed to hard, and I was wrong to judge people as too timid. Then I'll suffer the consequences for that, and I guess some other people will also to some degree as a result of my wrongdoing - we do affect each other. But for now, I think that all of the complacent skeptics, the kind who pretend to already understand nearly everything worth understanding, as well as the theists who content themselves with fairytails about how God will take care of everything for them, are all a bunch of cowards. I guess that's a trollish thing to say, but that's how I see it.
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